crime against humanity
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A very destructive and immoral act; later specifically, something causing widespread human misery or loss of life; an atrocity.
Example Sentences
- "The Holocaust was a terrible crime against humanity; it took the lives of 6 million Jews, 2 million Poles, and hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, and the elderly and disabled."
- "Be faithful to your friend that doth entrust you; remembring that perfidiousness or falseness to a friend, is a crime against humanity, and all society."
- "Courage remained a virtue. And that exploitation of courage, if I may be allowed to say a thing so obvious, was the essential tragedy of the War, which, as everyone now agrees, was a crime against humanity."
- "A Spanish judge has charged five suspected former leaders of the armed Basque separatist movement ETA with crimes against humanity for attacks carried out by the group after 2004 which killed 12 people."
- "“Pineapple on pizza is a crime against humanity,” Leo's voice is flat. Which is weird, because he usually adds “Fight me” at the end of that declaration."